Climate variability in West Greenland during the past 1500 years: Evidence from a high-resolution marine palynological record from Disko Bay

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-83

  Ribeiro, Sofia ^a   Moros, Matthias ^b,c   Ellegaard, Marianne ^a   Kuijpers, Antoon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ICE COVER; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; DISKO BAY; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 83855165811     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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